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Sources: Jony Ive was dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process and frustrated inside a more operations-focused company — Apple's design chief helped create some of the world's best-known products, but grew distant from leadership, as the company shifted its focus to operations under CEO Tim Cook.
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MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, Engadget, Android Authority, Thurrott, Business Insider, joe cieplinski, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, MacDailyNews, Gizchina, Cult of Mac, The Talk Show With John Gruber, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and Telegraph
Tweets: @bmetrock, @reckless, @patrickmoorhead, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @shalini, @wsj, @drbarnard, @trippmickle, @gartenberg, @simshagaya, @joannastern, and @viticci
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace, where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, called capsules, in the US and South Korea — Samsung has launched its Bixby Marketplace, a dedicated app store where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, similar to Amazon's Alexa skills.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Many internet outages are caused by problems with the trust-based Border Gateway Protocol, which was conceived in 1989 and remains largely unchanged since 1994 — IN A WEEKS-LONG stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners.
Tweets: @kiraallmann and @wired
| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Walmart China uses VeChainThor blockchain to show customers the path a food product took, from its source to the shelves, with 23 product lines listed now — Walmart China has launched a blockchain-based platform aimed to address food safety concerns in the country.
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| Golnaz Esfandiari / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: |
Iran says power consumption jumped 7% in June, largely due to Bitcoin mining, making the country's power grid unstable, seizes 1,000 Bitcoin mining machines — Iran has blamed an “unusual” spike in electricity consumption in the country on cryptocurrency miners, while warning that such illicit operations will be cut off from the grid.
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The Verge, Asia Blockchain Review, Reuters, CoinGeek, BBC, CryptoGlobe, Forbes, Messari Crypto, The Next Web, Bitcoin News, and The Block. Tweets: @arawnsley
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Facebook says it will treat 2020 US Census like an election and will have “people, policies and technology in place to protect against census interference” — Civil rights are the foundation of a free and just society — and something we care deeply about as a company.
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TechCrunch, Medium, Firstpost Tech, Reuters, Engadget, CNN, CNET, and Axios
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting — THE SUPREME COURT'S conservative justices ruled Thursday that the highest court doesn't have the power to address partisan gerrymandering …
Tweets: @wired, @wired, and @samwangphd
| Alyssa Bereznak / The Ringer: |
How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists — Lil Nas X's ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business. Here's what happens when a social media platform becomes a label.| Nicky Woolf / Tortoise Media: |
Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented — How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet — On 27 April, before he burst …
Tweets: @xtophercook, @ryan_padraic, @cerithomas01, @tortoise, and @nickywoolf
| Charlie Fink / Forbes: |
Industrial AR headset maker RealWear raises $80M Series B led by industrial automation company Teradyne, bringing its total raised to over $100M — I'm a former tech executive covering VR, AR and new media for Forbes. — RealWear, Inc., producer of the HMT-1 ruggedized head-mounted …
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VentureBeat, GeekWire, and Columbian
| Richard Lloyd / IAM: |
Intel puts around 8,500 patents related to the wireless modem business that it is exiting up for auction — In what looks set to become one of the highest profile patent sales in years, Intel has put its IP relating to cellular wireless connectivity on the auction block.
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MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Tom's Hardware, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @iansherr
| Tova Cohen / Reuters: |
Israel-Based NeuroBlade raises $23M Series A from Check Point co-founder Marius Nacht, Intel Capital, and others to bring its AI chip to market — TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli startup NeuroBlade said on Wednesday it has completed a $23 million early funding round, led by Marius Nacht …
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